Seniors or Older Adults - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs - Lottie, LA.

Drug and alcohol treatment programs which serve the specific and unique needs of seniors and older adults can be more beneficial for this particular group of people. Senior and older adult focused recovery services can be helpful with the initial stigma that seniors may feel they may experience when going to treatment and it offers support from others in the same stage of life who understand the specific challenges they encounter. In mixed age facilities seniors and older adults can at times be less likely to engage completely in group activities with younger clients who are not familiar with their generational and age related unique issues. Addiction rehab facilities which provide a more age appropriate forum for seniors and older adults can offer a connection of mutual understanding, respect, and support to address the challenges to treatment.

Treatment staff at drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities for seniors and older adults are there to deliver their unique expertise with older clients to resolve age-related, generational, and broader substance abuse related issues alike, while also taking into account any unique physical or mental health issues or challenges this subset of client faces while in treatment. Program curriculum for seniors and older adults may be presented with verbal or audio impairments in mind, such as larger type in reading material or treatment therapists who are experienced with the needs of older clients by the way individual and group counseling sessions.

Seniors and older adults are disproportionately prone to the abuse of prescription drugs and alcohol, and as part of recovery many need medical assistance not just through detoxification but to establish which prescriptions should be eliminated or continued as part of their recovery plan and their transition to a healthy lifestyle that will prolong their life.

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